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In this era of AI, machine learning and IoT, APIs are playing a crucial role in enabling these complex technologies provide intelligent and seamless user experience. APIs are emerging at a rapid pace. The current metrics show a market of 20 billion connected devices around the world, and this number is forecast to grow more than 50 billion by 2020. All these devices are connected through APIs, which makes it a raw material for the connected world.

Many leading web applications are moving their web experience toward APIs because the independence and modularity of APIs are helping to speed-up development processes and improve productivity in complex technologies. About a few years ago, the trend was mobile first, followed by web, and then came the APIs. Today, the trends have inclined towards APIs first, then mobile, and finally the web. This shift has driven us towards making API testing the theme of this newsletter for our readers.

QASource sponsors the Agilistry & QA Meetup Group. The goal of the group is to create a community where software engineers and developers can meet to learn new skills, build on current skill sets as well as network with other business professionals.

In the past few years, we have seen a drastic change in technology. During the last decade, many ideas have become a reality. In fact, in 2017, many of these technological innovations became available to the general public, such as humanoids, VPAs, self-driven cars etc. Due to these frequent technological changes and innovations, it is important for SQA companies to stay updated and upgrade their traditional testing techniques. Also, they need to train and help engineers learn new testing skills for a good quality assurance.

In this newsletter, QASource has come up with a few forecasts for some trending technologies being used in the industry i.e. AI, IoT, Big Data, and Blockchain and the changes/enhancements required in our current testing techniques.

Focused quality and faster delivery are the two major needs of today's software development industry and many organizations are working hard to maintain these qualities by implementing Agile methodology in their software development process. Further, to support the agile methodology, companies are heading towards the implementation of CI/CD in their SDLC. Our summer newsletter edition explains, the high-level approach and benefits of CI/CD implementation.

QASource sponsors the Agilistry & QA Meetup Group. The goal of the group is to create a community where software engineers and developers can meet to learn new skills, build on current skill sets as well as network with other business professionals.

As new set of configurations are released by different vendors from time to time, it becomes important to ensure end user experience is consistent across different platforms/configurations. Additionally, responsive applications are growing in the market which has increased the requirement of testing apps on variety of devices. So this time we have tailored our tool evaluation to support automation of applications on multiple platforms and its responsiveness.

Many automated test scripts fail because of flaky tests, false positives or poor code. As a result, many companies are consistently updating their test scripts and having difficulty automating new features.

Service providers are coming up with new trends in desktop applications which indicates that "desktop applications aren’t dead, they’re more than alive" and the scope of desktop application automation is growing. Our R&D team has spent time in evaluating tools and technologies to automate desktop application and therefore, came up with this newsletter which can help you to stay ahead with the latest trends in desktop application automation.

QASource sponsors the East Bay Agilistry & QA Meetup Group. Goal of the meetup group is to create a community where software engineers and developers can meet once a month to learn new skills, build on current skill sets as well as network with other business professionals.

QASource sponsors the East Bay Agilistry & QA Meetup Group. The goal of the meetup group is to create a community where software engineers and developers can meet once a month to learn new skills, build on current skill sets as well as network with other business professionals.

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